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“I Improvise with the layers” is an improvisation work. As a child, growing up in rural Maine at around five or six years old I was very concerned with that this meant I was a faggot. It’s true, I was a sissy but I also thought of my-self as a power ranger, the pink one with very very stiff wrists. On summer days preferred to bake with my best friend’s mom rather than play Football on the front lawn with the boys. However, at baseball practice, there was no hiding in the kitchen, I threw like a girl, I cringed at the baseball coming my way and then again at my father cringing at my cringing. I worked hard to make sure that my wrists were straight, and that my fingers were clenched in a fist, so as not to come across as a faggot. I heard that word a lot and quickly determined its meaning. Somewhere along the way I calculated that if my wrists were bent or in any way relaxed, limp or god forbid floppy.
I’m very interested in these performative and reciprocal loops of behavior that surround bodily norms and shame in “public.” In my work as a performer and performance maker I consciously seek to explore, expand, hijack and overturn norms. I improvise with the physical emotional and behavioral habits that lie at the fringes of social normativity, embracing idiots, limp wristed faggots, drunken dudes, hysteric sissies, religious fanatics, drug addicts and impossible comic figures. By working with, contrasting, and repeatedly overlapping these layers I am basically doing an age old interpretative dance about power. As I improvise, I perform a fluid de-formation of these bodies, I move towards unfamiliar places in ways that create new chains of sensation/action, when one body shifts into another, fueled by desire. My improvisation with these layers is a critique of a static subjectivity and a temporal plea for not knowing. This practice of Improvisation is a form of resistance towards the forces that have always dominated me both internally and externally.
Additional topics will include… the sissy on the street’s disrupting ol the social code, tales of invagination from The Lab, the mommy score, and the endless possibilities of… the limp wrist.
I’m very interested in these performative and reciprocal loops of behavior that surround bodily norms and shame in “public.” In my work as a performer and performance maker I consciously seek to explore, expand, hijack and overturn norms. I improvise with the physical emotional and behavioral habits that lie at the fringes of social normativity, embracing idiots, limp wristed faggots, drunken dudes, hysteric sissies, religious fanatics, drug addicts and impossible comic figures. By working with, contrasting, and repeatedly overlapping these layers I am basically doing an age old interpretative dance about power. As I improvise, I perform a fluid de-formation of these bodies, I move towards unfamiliar places in ways that create new chains of sensation/action, when one body shifts into another, fueled by desire. My improvisation with these layers is a critique of a static subjectivity and a temporal plea for not knowing. This practice of Improvisation is a form of resistance towards the forces that have always dominated me both internally and externally.
Additional topics will include… the sissy on the street’s disrupting ol the social code, tales of invagination from The Lab, the mommy score, and the endless possibilities of… the limp wrist.